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3rd Sengoku Basara Season's 1st Video, Songs, Designs, & More of Cast Unveiled
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The official website for Sengoku Basara: Judge End, the third anime season inspired by CAPCOM's Sengoku Basara game franchise, unveiled an advance promotional video, character designs, theme song information, and additional cast on Wednesday.
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The band Fear, and Loathing in Las Vegas is contributing the opening theme "Thunderclap," while singer Chiaki Ishikawa is contributing the theme song "Hokkyoku ~Polaris~."
Takanori Nishikawa, the singer also known as T.M. Revolution, is voicing the original anime character Sakai Tadatsugu, a general in the Tokugawa clan.
The other new cast include:
Ryotaro Okiayu as Toyotomi Hideyoshi, the supreme ruler of the Toyotomi army who aims to create the most powerful country in the world
Akira Ishida as Takenaka Hanbee, the aloof but brilliant strategist ing the Toyotomi army
Fumihiko Tachiki as Ohtani Yoshitsugu, the Toyotomi army's strategist after Hanbee's death
Honda Tadakatsu, Tokugawa army's most powerful general during the Sengoku era
The series will premiere on July 5.
Returning cast include:
Kazuya Nakai as Date Masamune
Souichiro Hoshi as Sanada Yukimura
Toru Ohkawa as Tokugawa Ieyasu
Tomokazu Seki as Ishida Mitsunari
[Historical Japanese names are listed family name first here, while modern names are listed family name last.]
Sengoku Basara Judge End is based on CAPCOM's 2010 game Sengoku Basara 3 (Sengoku Basara: Samurai Heroes), and it will depict the epic Battle of Sekigahara. NTV's English website lists the anime as Sengoku Basara -Judgement- with 12 episodes.
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